MoBSE Trains Trainers on Utilizing ‘I Learn’ Gambia Platform
By Ndey Sowe
The Directorate of Science and Technology under the Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education (MoBSE) has concluded a five-day Training of Trainers...
Gnut trade slows down amid reconciliation of purchases
By Lamin Fatty & Assan Bah
The trade season in rural Gambia has slowed down amid challenges of farmers cashing out their payments and credit...
NAO Challenges Health Ministry to Ensure Full Utilization of Mental Health...
By Kebba AF Touray
The National Audit Office (NAO) has challenged the Ministry of Health (MOH) to ensure the full utilization of the mental health...
Excerpts from the Draft Constitution 2024
ON THE SECOND ROUND OF VOTING
Clause 86 of the Draft Constitution 2024 stipulates:
Procedure of election of President
(1) The Independent Boundaries and Electoral Commission shall...
“Paracetamol always available at Kanifing General Hospital”
In response to a story published by Foroyaa, the public relations officer at Kanifing General Hospital called Foroyaa to say that what Foroyaa published...
189 MILLION ALLOCATED TO THE IEC:
WILL THERE BE REGISTRATION OF VOTERS BEFORE REFERENDUM?
The legal advisers of the IEC should focus on sections 26 and 39 of the Constitution. It...
WHAT WAS THE MAJOR EMPHASIS OF THE PDOIS SECRETARY GENERAL ON...
The emphasis is that the executive merely proposes a constitution for promulgation. After the proposal, it is the National Assembly members who are the...
GUIDANCE NEEDED FOR MAMUD FANA COOPERATIVE MARKETING SOCIETY
A society must have members. It must also have a constitution or bye-laws governing membership. Foroyaa is reliably informed that the registrar general of...
National Assembly to Commence Committee Sessions
By Kebba AF Touray
The Gambia National Assembly is gearing up for the committee meetings and sessions in the 2025 Legislative Year, which will commence...
Gambia’s major hospitals in crisis
amid limited supply of essential medicines
By Amadou Manjang
On the evening of November 15, 2024, Isatou walked into Serekunda General Hospital seeking medical attention for...
Expert Presents Report on Gambia’s Caste, Descent-Based Discrimination at UN
By Nelson Manneh
Alima Taal, a senior rights expert of the Global Forum of Communities Discriminated on Work and Descent recently presented a report on...
Education Ministry to Deliver Text Books to All Lower, Upper Basic...
By Ndey Sowe
The Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education (MoBSE) is step to deliver over one million text books across all Lower and Upper...
ARE THERE DRUG SHORTAGES IN THE HOSPITALS?
Foroyaa has concluded its investigation of drug shortages in hospitals which was acknowledged by the health authorities who gave explanation for this.
The public sector...
SOVEREIGN NATIONAL ASSETS NEED SOVEREIGN NATIONAL WEALTH
Countries became independent in order to promote self-reliance and independence. This requires the accumulation of sovereign national wealth in order to build sea ports,...
Modern slavery continues to rear its ugly head in Libya as...
By Biran Gaye
Dozens of African migrants and refugees have recently been captured for ransom in Kufra, Libya as modern slavery continues to rear its...
IEC to Conduct Council By-Election for Massembeh Ward in Mansakonko
By Nelson Manneh
The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC), in a press release issued on Monday, 6 January 2025, revealed that a council by-election will be conducted...
HAS THE UTG RESUMED LECTURES?
Readers would recall the UTG had to close operations due to the downing of tools. Foroyaa had endeavoured to find out whether lectures would...
Chronicles of Blackness: Surviving the Shadows of Libya and Europe
As the 4th anniversary of the eviction of our protest in Tripoli, Libya is approaching, I try to pen down what is in my...
WHAT PLAN DOES KMC HAVE FOR MARKET WOMEN AND VENDORS IN...
KMC is supposed to operate on the basis of the rule of law. The Local Government Act provides the KMC, like all other councils,...
SECCO AT MAMUDFANA IN OPERATION WITHOUT LICENCE
Foroyaa has been reliably informed that the secco at Mamudfana is operational without a certificate for its cooperative producer marketing society. The beginning of...
